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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Turboonomic EU based SaaS Reporting

Today the Turbonomic SaaS reporting in Thoughtspot is hosted only in the US. Many organizations in Norway require the data to be stored within EU, for example all of the public sector. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.15.4?topic=reporting-enabli...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Re : WiFi station raw data for at least 90 - 180 days for public wifi

Customer is providing Public Wifi services where regulatory requirement to have raw data on users connected WiFi do not abuse the facilities and services. In the event there is a police case investigation. Operator will required to provide specifi...
24 days ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for re-calculation of indicator of seconds/minutes/time

If creating a report based on indicators that have values in seconds, such as system uptime, DI should provide me the choice to change what the display shows. If the indicator normally displays as seconds, allow me to select days instead and show ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists